Luigina Mortati is a full professor of pedagogy, theories of education and social education at the Department of Human Sciences. The research activity is developed in two related fields: philosophy and pedagogy, and following two directions: theoretical and applied.

The theorization of a philosophy of care applied to the educative field (education as care) and healthcare (education to care).

The theorization of a virtue ethics theory following the paradigm of care, through the pedagogical application in the MelArete project.

Th development of an epistemology of qualitative research mixing two different methods (phenomenological, hermeneutical and grounded) in order to fit complex situation

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Modules running in the period selected: 63.
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The Group focuses on emotions as the subject of theoretico-empirical study in the field of human sciences, highlighting and increasing the possible contributions arising from philosophy, psycho-paedagogy and sociology.

The research group “MelArete – virtue ethics” is aimed at designing and conducting educative researches on ethical, spiritual and political education, creating and evaluating educative paths useful for schools (“service research”).
The inquiries conducted by the group collect and nurture the richness of children’s thought about great ethical themes (different virtues and the concepts of good, care, friendship, spirituality and politics), working together with teachers and for them, in order to bring these themes at the heart of educational practices.

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Epistemology of qualitative Inquiry

In order to fund an empirical rigorous research in the field of the human sciences, it has been elaborated a qualitative epistemology that has as epistemic core: Bateson’s ecology, naturalistic inquiry, phenomenology and pragmatism. A specific attention is devoted to the elaboration of an “empirical phenomenology” (Ep). It has been developed a specific version for the healthcare environment.

Developing a philosophy of care is an answer to the intention to give a theoretical expression to a concept that is fundamental for culture, but scarcely defined: this requests a rigorous theorization. This process is based on the analysis of texts of ancient philosophy and of a part of contemporary philosophy. From a methodological point of view this vision of the philosophy of care prefers the phenomenological method.

The elaboration of a theory of the emotional life and of a theory of the ethics of care represents the architecture for a philosophy of existence able to give form to a theory of education faithful to the ontological essence of human life.